This photograph shows General Sherman and members of the Peace Commission
meeting with Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian leaders Fort Laramie in Wyoming
in May 1868.  The commissioners were especially anxious to reach an
agreement to end Red Cloud's war, but th e chief refused to meet with them
until all U.S. soldiers were withdrawn from the forts along the Powder
River (part of the Bozeman Trail).  That summer Fort Smith, Fort Philip
Kearny, and Fort Reno were officially closed; on November 6, Red Cloud
rode in to Fort Laramie and signed the treaty, securing the Powder River
Valley as a hunting ground for his tribe.